[jdom-interest] Default line separator in XMLOutputter

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>Does anyone know why the line separator (STANDARD_LINE_SEPARATOR) 
>default value is set to "\r\n" in XMLOutputter rather than using the 
>platform default (system property "line.seperator")?


1. It's more interoperable across platforms to specify a line end 
separator. Code that uses XMLOutputter should not produce different 
output depending on which platform it's run on.

2. \r\n is the standard line ending convention of most network 
protocols such as HTTP.
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